Charles: not the Prince, the Proxy

It’s around 3 months now that I’m spending majority of my time developing for the web. For both Career (my new job at Betfair) and Personal (my pet project txty.mobi) reasons. And when you do it pretty intensively, with a lot of JSON, Javascript code and what not, you need some tools to ā€œease tasksā€. Particularly, the ones where you need to simulate a non-browser client or stuff like that. ...

September 10, 2010 Ā· 3 min Ā· 561 words

Git-over-SSH through Socks 5 Proxy on Windows

Because of my work, I use crappy M$ Windows in my office. And we are behind a bidirectional firewall. So, how do you do if you need to pull/push code with Git-over-SSH in this scenario? You need a Socks 5 that passes the firewall, and some scripting. First, you need to install: Git on Windows - http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ Connect.c - http://bent.latency.net/bent/darcs/goto-san-connect-1.85/src/connect.html Then, you need a script that connects to the Socks 5 server. Like: [sourcecode lang=ā€˜bash’] #!/bin/sh ...

August 13, 2009 Ā· 1 min Ā· 200 words

Windows 7 in 6 different sauces

Images and Videos say more than ever here. --’ Here it comes again!!! --' Steve, please say something: Source: The Apple Lounge

February 5, 2009 Ā· 1 min Ā· 22 words

The Android is spreading all around

I was sure that is was just a matter of time, before we started to see Android spreading all around into every possible flavour of Mobile (only?) piece of hardware. It started when just the first versions of the SDK were out in the wild: people were ā€œjustā€ recompiling the kernel, and boom! The magic was happening. That was a demonstration of really good and effective layering: just adapting the kernel to the hosting hardware was making it up and running. Now, with the source code available to everyone, the porting festival is becoming even larger, with small-medium company, as well as university guys, porting Android everywhere. ...

December 14, 2008 Ā· 2 min Ā· 219 words

Iastemma

No, il Cinguettio questa volta non basta. Ho una domanda per tutti gli utilizzatori di [en:Microsoft Windows] che mi seguono:: MA COME CAZZO FATE AD USARE QUELLA LOTA DI SISTEMA OPERATIVO? ho perso tipo 2 settimane un mese fa a configurarlo per bene in una partizione dedicato ho installato numero 2 giochi ([en:Gears of War] e [en:Race Driver: Grid], due grandissimi giochi) per il puro piacere di dire «Anche io ogni tanto torno bimbio e spendo qualche ora a giocare» ...

July 14, 2008 Ā· 1 min Ā· 183 words

Video of the Day

> Title: Unity in VMware Fusion for Mac OS X Abstract: Demonstration of VMware Fusion's upcoming Unity feature which allows users to interact with Windows applications on Mac OS X as if they were Mac applications. Source: [TUAW](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/06/vmware-fusion-unity/).

June 7, 2007 Ā· 1 min Ā· 38 words

Is like give a A Glass of Ice Water in the Hell

I’m looking these 2 videos about the Chat between [en:Steve_Jobs|S. Jobs] and [en:Bill_Gates|B. Gates] at All Things Digital 2007. Actually I finished this: And on my way to see the most interesting one: ...

May 31, 2007 Ā· 1 min Ā· 75 words

HDR experiments...

Because I can’t resist to try to understand… when my great friend try something ;) . Here you can see the original version of two images: London - Regent’s Street - Apple Store (made by me during my second trip at London for the Assesment Day of Symbian) Gulls (by National Geographics) And, after the jump, the [en:HDR]ed version. ...

March 22, 2007 Ā· 1 min Ā· 109 words

Fusion Beta 2 available

Today, after finishing of the URL-game of xmau (I have jumped the 42 because… I don’t know how to make THE QUESTION: I have found the credits casually! ;) ), I have decided to come back to life. And, on TUAW, I found this: VMWare release the beta 2 of Fusion, the [en:Mac_OS_X|MacOSX] version of VMWare Virtualization System. The biggest news is the availability of the native 3D-Support of DirectX for virtualized [en:Windows] installations. Here the Release Notes.

March 5, 2007 Ā· 1 min Ā· 78 words

Pirates doesn't want Vista

In my opinion, Balmer is yelling because NO-ONE LIKES VISTA, PIRATES TOO!!! :D Instead, everyone is waiting for steal Leopard!!! ;) Source, Gustomela.

February 21, 2007 Ā· 1 min Ā· 23 words